Astronomy Day - Saturday - April 21st, 2007  Don’t forget to look up tonight and think about were we might travel to in the future and appreciate the beauty and mystery of the universe.

Welcome home Charles Simonyi and thank you for pushing limits, you are a pioneer, sir.

Today is the forty sixth anniversary of the first man ever to orbit the Earth, mankind’s first foray into space. Yuri Gagarin was a twenty seven year old Soviet cosmonaut when he traveled into space aboard Vostock 1. Yuri’s flight lasted one hour and forty eight minutes and he retuned to Earth safely. One year after the historical flight Cosmonautics Day was established to celebrate this momentous feat.

I’m not sure if there have been any celebrations in Russia this year. I hope so. If anyone has any news about celebrations this year, send me the link. In the mean time let us all take a moment to think about that wonderful day and all of our accomplishments since and where we’ll be in the future.